Improvement in sewing-machine stands



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RICHARD M. WANZEB, OF HAMILTON, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No, 137.983, dated April15, 1873; application filed January 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, RICHARD Mor'r- WAN; ZER, of the city of Hamilton,in the county of Wentworth, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion ofCanada, have invented a'certain new and useful Improvement inSewing-Machine Stands; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same.

This invention consists in mounting the operative parts proper of asewing-machine upon a slab of marble or other stone, or metal, ifdesired, which is designed to be inserted into a recess formed in thetable or stand;

the object of such an arrangement of parts being to permit the machineto be sustained in position by the weight of the base or slab to whichit is attached, when located on the table, and also when it is removedfrom the same and transferred to an ordinary table or other support, foruse as a hand machine, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view representing asewing-machine provided with a weighted base, which is inserted into arecess in the table or stand. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a table-top witha recess formed in the same for the reception of the weighted base ofthe machine. Fig. 3 is a similar view, representing the recess for thereception of the weighted base of the machine formed on the table bymoldings applied to the surface of the same.

The operating mechanism of asewingmachine, about which there is nothingnew, is designated by A, and the table or stand for supporting themachine is shown at B. The machine proper is attached to or mounted on aslab, 0, made of marble or other stone, or metal, if found expedient,said slab constituting a supporting-base for the machine,.which isadapted to be inserted into a recess, D, formed in or on the table, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3. The base or slab, formed of either of thematerials specified, will, by its inherent weight, serve to maintain themachine in position without liability of displacement, and the use ofadditional fastenin g devices, while not preventing the ready 7 removalof the machine for the purposes hereinafter set forth. The recess forthe reception of the weighted or self-sustaining base of the machine isformed, when the table is of a suffi cient thickness to permit such astep, in the surface of the same, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, whichcauses the base to be flush with the top of the table, as clearly shownin Fig. 1.

A similar result is attained, if preferred, by applying to the surfaceof the table strips or moldings F of wood or meta-l, which form a recesswithout cutting the table, as shown in Fig. 3..

In the operation of the sewing-machine, it is generally desirable ordeemed expedient to use the machine in various positions or localities,and for permitting such a result I have devised the arrangement of partsforming the subject of this application, the weighted base serving, whenthe machine is removed from the table proper and disposed in a. chair ortable, perhaps in a room remote from where the table proper is located,to support the machine in position by its own weight, so as to permitthe same to be used under different circumstances, either as a foot orhand machine, as will be apparent.

I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not deem asewing-machine attached to a base separate from the table to be broadlynew; but in no instance is such a base capa ble of supporting themachine by its own weight, fastening devices of various kinds beinginvariably resorted to for securing the machine in position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The slab or weighted base 0, carrying the operative mechanism A of asewing-machine, and adapted for insertion into a recess, D, formed in oron the table B, as and for the purpose herein set forth.

Dated at Hamilton, Canada, this 10th day of December, 1872.

R. M. WANZER.

Signed in the presence of-=- WM. BRUCE, 1?. L. Scarves.

